Job summary
Come and join our friendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-19 team and share
our ambition to make a fundamental difference in improving the health and
wellbeing of children and their families in Tower Hamlets.
Main duties of the job
Working
across the 0-19 service our staff nurses will require a
positive attitude towards actively engaging with a diverse range of clients in
our community. You will be able to participate in child health screening,
including, weighing, measuring, vision and hearing, health promotion, clinical
duty, school drop in/Healthy Child clinics and supporting parenting in a
variety of environments including the family home, clinics, schools and Children’s
centres as well as via digital means.
About us
Tower Hamlets
GP Care Group (the Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company
limited by shares in September 2014.
Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care
Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices,
deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the
provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
The Care
Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated
partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the
London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation
and support for primary care
- Being
a great place to work
- Integrating
primary and community care
- Providing
of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing
improvements in health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To support the delivery of 0-19 Universal Services as well as the Healthy Child Programme.
- To support and assist Community Nursery Nurses and skill mix teams as required.
- To participate in the development of skill mix within the 0-19 Universal Services Team.
- To participate in Health Education programmes and health promotion activities on a multi-disciplinary basis as agreed by the 0-19 Universal Services Team.
- To participate in strategy meetings, case conferences, providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervision as per policy for safeguarding children.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To support the delivery of 0-19 Universal Services as well as the Healthy Child Programme.
- To support and assist Community Nursery Nurses and skill mix teams as required.
- To participate in the development of skill mix within the 0-19 Universal Services Team.
- To participate in Health Education programmes and health promotion activities on a multi-disciplinary basis as agreed by the 0-19 Universal Services Team.
- To participate in strategy meetings, case conferences, providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervision as per policy for safeguarding children.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC Registration.
- Degree level.
Desirable
- Evidence of other post registration education and training.
- Evidence of personal development.
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, willingness to develop.
- Healthy Child Programme.
- Understanding of Safeguarding.
- Knowledge of Information and Clinical Governance.
Desirable
- Infant Feeding and Healthy weight eg UNICEF standards.
- Knowledge of Clinical Effectiveness programme eg Audit, research.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- IT awareness and IT Skills, including electronic Record management.
- Good interpersonal and organisation skills.
- Time management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written and communication skills.
- Have a flexible approach to team working, acknowledging own
- limitations but working under delegation.
- Adaptable to change/service transformation.
Other requirements
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Commitment to working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Able to deliver core service requirements.
- Demonstrate a keen interest in public health and working in the community.
- Demonstrate an understanding of Safeguarding Children.
- Clear Commitment to undertake further training.
- Having the ability to deal psychologically and emotionally with potentially distressing situations e.g. Bereavement and specific critical incidents.
Desirable
- Relevant experience of working as a community nurse.
- Demonstrate some post registration experience working with children or in the community or knowledge required to work with this group.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC Registration.
- Degree level.
Desirable
- Evidence of other post registration education and training.
- Evidence of personal development.
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, willingness to develop.
- Healthy Child Programme.
- Understanding of Safeguarding.
- Knowledge of Information and Clinical Governance.
Desirable
- Infant Feeding and Healthy weight eg UNICEF standards.
- Knowledge of Clinical Effectiveness programme eg Audit, research.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- IT awareness and IT Skills, including electronic Record management.
- Good interpersonal and organisation skills.
- Time management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written and communication skills.
- Have a flexible approach to team working, acknowledging own
- limitations but working under delegation.
- Adaptable to change/service transformation.
Other requirements
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Commitment to working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Able to deliver core service requirements.
- Demonstrate a keen interest in public health and working in the community.
- Demonstrate an understanding of Safeguarding Children.
- Clear Commitment to undertake further training.
- Having the ability to deal psychologically and emotionally with potentially distressing situations e.g. Bereavement and specific critical incidents.
Desirable
- Relevant experience of working as a community nurse.
- Demonstrate some post registration experience working with children or in the community or knowledge required to work with this group.
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).